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May 11, 2012 Using the Law as a Tool for Social Change Bob and Ann Seidman have been working at BU Law since 1976 and teaching in the law since long before that. Throughout their careers, they worked in over 30 different countries always concentrating on the same goal: using the law to bring about democratic social change.
May 3, 2012
	The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act There is a great debate before the U.S. Supreme Court on whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act minimum coverage provision is in fact constitutional. Wendy Mariner, professor of law and the lead author of an amicus brief submitted to the court by more than 100 health law professors, discusses Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida and the amicus brief, and examines some of the points that arose during the court’s oral arguments. (Audio)
April 27, 2012 Breaking Barriers & Overcoming Obstacles in the 21st Century Asian Pacific American Law Students Association conference brings together distinguished panelists and students for networking and discussion
April 24, 2012
Brandon Middleton-Pratt ('12) on Being Prepared for a Challenge >>Related feature
April 10, 1012
	Shareholder Activism Professor David H. Webber discusses his research in the area of shareholder activism and his paper “The Plight of the Individual Investor in Securities Class Actions. Webber examines the forces driving shareholder activism, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, corporate governance reform and how to remedy conflicts between institutional and individual investors in class actions. (Audio)
March 16, 2012
	The Impact of BU Law’s LL.M. Programs John N. Riccardi, assistant dean for Graduate and International Programs and director of the Office of Graduate and International Programs, discusses the School’s graduate programs for international lawyers. Alumnus Johan S. Ellefsen shares his experience with the LL.M. program and where he is today. (Audio)
February 21, 2012
Elizabeth Rossi ('12) on Connecting Law School to the Real World >>Related feature
February 15, 2012
Sarah Saucedo ('06) on Working for an International Law Firm >>Related feature
January 31, 2012
	The Economic Impact of Lawsuits by Patent Trolls BU Law Podcast Series features James Bessen (Audio)
January 18, 2012
Michael Greenwald ('10) on Working for the U.S. Treasury >>Related feature
January 3, 2012
	Gender Equality in Citizenship Laws BU Law Podcast Series features Kristin Collins (Audio)
December 2, 2011
Examining Occupy Boston >>Related feature
November, 2011
	The Odd Clauses of the U.S. Constitution BU Law Podcast Series features Jay Wexler (Audio)
	An Observation of Race and Reproductive Rights in a Medical Setting BU Law Podcast Series features Khiara Bridges (Audio)
September, 2011
	Antibiotic Resistance and Health Law: BU Law Podcast Series features Professor Kevin Outterson (Audio)
August, 2011
	Podcast featuring Dean Maureen O'Rourke and Elizabeth Rossi ('12) on the BU Law prospective, produced by Law School Interactive (Audio)
	Managing a Law Firm as a Business: BU Law Podcast Series features James W. Jones ('86), co-managing director and senior vice president, Hildebrandt Baker Robbins (Audio)
June 27, 2011
Being Adversarial: A look at the moot court experience at BU Law
June 14, 2011
BU Law Commencement 2011 Slideshow >>Related news
June, 2011
On Their Own: Three BU Law alumni start their own firm
June, 2011
BU Law's International Community
May, 2011
BU Law Across Generations: Alumni and their offspring compare notes on BU Law, then and now
April 8, 2011
The Salvati Case: How BU Law alumni freed an innocent man from prison >>Related story
April 7, 2011
	Representing Death Row Inmates: BU Law Podcast Series features Kenneth J. Rose, senior staff attorney at the Center for Death Penalty Litigation (Audio)
April 1, 2011 Shapiro lecture featuring Kenneth J. Rose ('81): "Finding Purpose: Lessons learned in law school and 30 years of representing inmates on death row" >> Event details
March 31, 2011
Public Interest Project Auction celebrates its 20th year
March 26, 2011
BU Law 5K Ambulance Chase Fun Run
March 25, 2011
Haiti Sings: Using the law to empower musicians
March 3, 2011
	BU Law Podcast Series features Morton Aronson ('59), Of Counsel, Federal & Hasson, LLP, discussing "The Practice of Franchising" (Audio)
March, 2011
BU Law Executive LL.M. Program Introduction from Dean Maureen O'Rourke >>Program details
March, 2011
Executive LL.M. Program Overview >>Program details
February 26, 2011 AJLM Symposium: "Marketing Health: The Growing Role of Commercial Speech Doctrine in FDA Regulation" Afternoon Sessions(Video)
February 19-24, 2011 Distinguished Visitor, The Honorable Aharon Barak, former President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Video)
January 26, 2011 "Finding Refuge Reaching Out: LAW students offer asylum seekers free, often life-saving counsel," BU Today (Video)
January 11, 2011
	BU Law Podcast Series features Professor David Walker discussing "Executive Pay Analysis" (Audio)
December 15, 2010
	BU Law Podcast Series features alumnus Joshua Soloway ('06) discussing "Rainmaker Lawyer in a Challenging Market" (Audio)
December 1, 2010
Actual Innocence: BU Law students work to help wrongfully convicted prisoners
November 18, 2010
	BU Law Podcast Series features Professor David Nersessian exploring "Genocide & Political Groups" (Audio)
November 2, 2010
	BU Law Podcast Series features Cornelius K. Hurley, Professor of the Practice of Banking Law, discussing Financial Reform and the Law (Audio)
October 29, 2010 Tamar Frankel Conference - The Role of Fiduciary Law and Trust in the 21st Century (Video) Pike Conference 2010: "Coming Home Injured: Care and Advocacy for America's Veterans" (Video)
September 29, 2010
A book club for the homeless: A different kind of pro bono work >>Related feature
September 9, 2010
	BU Law Podcast Series features Clinical Professor Susan Akram discussing Immigration and Refugee Law (Audio)
August 5, 2010
Combating Human Trafficking: A Pro Bono Trip to Cambodia
August 2, 2010
	BU Law Podcast Series features Professor Stanley Fisher discussing "The Innocence Project & Wrongful Convictions" (Audio)
July 26, 2010
Adam Holland: from Olympic rowing to copyright law
July 14, 2010
	BU Law Podcast Series features BU alumnus, Attorney Robert V. Chisholm ('88) discussing "Veterans Law" (Audio)
June 29, 2010
	BU Law Podcast Series features Maura Kelly, Assistant Dean of Career Development and Public Service, and Cheryl Constantine, Associate Director of Financial Aid, discussing "The Growing Trend of Public Service" (Audio)
June 25, 2010
A Lack of Law and Order: BU Law students provide relief services in Haiti
June 11, 2010
Revisiting New Orleans: Adrienne Bossi ('10) provides legal assistance to Katrina victims
May 21, 2010
Aid for asylum seekers: Elizabeth Verney ('12) donates pro bono legal services for TX spring break
May 16, 2010 BU Law Commencement Speech, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. (Video) BU Law Commencement Video Vignette (Video) BU Law Commencement Photo Slideshow(Slideshow)
May 6, 2010
	BU Law Faculty Podcast Series features Professor Mark Pettit discussing "The Power of Song in Law School" (Audio)
April 9, 2010
April 7, 2010
	BU Law Faculty Podcast Series features Professor Ward Farnsworth discussing "Judicial Philosophy in Legal Interpretation at the Supreme Court" (Audio)
March 26, 2010
March 5, 2010
	BU Law Faculty Podcast Series features Professor Michael Meurer discussing his book (with Professor James Bessen): Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk (Audio)
February 3, 2010
	BU Law Faculty Podcast Series features Professor James Fleming discussing his book: Constitutional Interpretation: The Basic Questions (Audio)
January 6, 2010
	BU Law Faculty Podcast Series features Professor Linda McClain discussing her book: Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship (Audio)
December 4, 2009
	BU Law Faculty Podcast Series features Professor Jay Wexler discussing his book: Holy Hullabaloos: A Road Trip to the Battlegrounds of the Church/State Wars(Audio)

October 28, 2009

"Capitalism: A Love Story..." a discussion with Howard Zinn and Robert Pozen
Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)

October 24, 2009

Pike Conference Fall 2009: "Naked on the Net? The Future of Health Privacy in the Information Technology Age" (Video)

October 21, 2009

U.S./Iran Negotiations: What Is At Stake? (Video)

October 1, 2009

"Torts Scholarship: Past and Future," featuring Professor Keith Hylton (Video)

September 25-26, 2009

Justice for Hedgehogs: A Conference on Ronald Dworkin's Forthcoming Book (Video)

September 10, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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August 19, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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June 10, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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May 17, 2009

BU Law Commencement Speech delivered by Governor Howard Brush Dean III (Video)
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Commencement Slideshow

May 8, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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April 22, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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April 17, 2009

"Which Way is Up? Thirty Years of Procedural Reform" featuring Professor Robert Bone (Video)
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April 15, 2009

The Edward Lane-Reticker Speaker Series - The Marshall Carter Lecture for the Morin Center at Law (Video)
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April 4, 2009

IP Conference: What does the Economics of Property Law Teach Patent, Copyright and Trademark Scholars? (Video)

April 2, 2009

BU Law's 17th Annual Public Interest Project Auction (Slideshow)
Related Story: "SOLD, for a Great Cause: Auction gives law students the opportunity to help those who need it most," BU Today

March 27, 2009

Pike Conference: "Autism: Science, Law and Public Policy" (Video)
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March 26, 2009

"A Short, Incomplete, and Opinionated History of the BU School of Law" featuring Professor David Seipp" (Video)
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March 25, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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March 11, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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February 25, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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February 11, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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January 28, 2009

"The Buck Starts Here" - a Lecture Series Co-sponsored by the Morin Center and the Boston Bar Association (Video)
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January 23, 2009

Boston University International Law Journal Symposium 2009 - Developments in International Disability Sport Law (Video)
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November 14 - 15, 2008

The Role of Congress in the Twenty-First Century (Video)

October 27, 2008

"Is this Justice?: Technicalities and Bad Lawyers in Criminal Cases"
Shapiro Lecture featuring Stephen B. Bright, President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights (Video)

October 21, 2008

The Art Market, Museums and the Legacy of the Holocaust: Legal and Ethical Issues >>View BU Today video & feature

October, 2008

Professor Cornelius Hurley in the news (Audio/Video)

September 26, 2008

• Professor Cornelius Hurley interviewed on WBZ News Radio in "BU's Hurley: We're in a new era" (Video)
• Professor Cornelius Hurley interviewed on WGBH in "Stabalizing the financial market" (Video)
• Professor Cornelius Hurley interviewed on WGBH in "The Fed bails out AIG - is more market regulation needed?" ( Video)

September 1, 2008

Slideshow from Brendan Riley's ('08) semester abroad at Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid

July 11, 2008

Interview with Glendora McIlwain Putnam, Esq. (Class of 1948) (Video: 9:22)

>>View feature: “Equal Rights Crusader Glendora Putnam (’48) Honored as Living Legend by the Museum of African American History”

May 30, 2008

Hear Professor Andrew Kull, 2008 recipient of BU's Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, discuss his experience as a professor
BU Today: "University Honors Three for Teaching Excellence" (Audio and Article)

May 18, 2008

BU Law Commencement 2008 Slideshow

Commencement Address, Nikki Tsongas (’88), U.S. House of Representatives, 5^th District (Video)

April 24, 2008

Noam Chomsky Lectures on Modern-Day American Imperialism: Middle East and Beyond (Video and Article)

April 8, 2008

Professor Charles Whitehead interviewed on New Hampshire Public Radio feature, “The US Supreme Court Could Take a Case Involving International Trade” (Audio: 3:53)

April 7, 2008

Pardee Center's "Future Challenges: Trade and Development " seminar featuring Professor Kevin Outterson (Video: 1:36)
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April, 2008

Wondering what a first-year class is like at BU Law? Sit in on this mock Contracts class taught by Mark Pettit, BU Law’s “singing professor.” Pettit brings concepts of restitution, reliance and expectancy to life through a student-teacher duet, a reading of “A nose by any other name,” and a plastic snout.
>>View mock class (Video)

April 3, 2008

2007-2008 Distinguished Lecture: "Looking Over a Crowd and Picking Out Your Friends" featuring Harold Koh, Dean, Yale Law School" (Video: 59:13) (Audio)BU Login required
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March 24, 2008

Pike Conference 2008: The Future of Health Law (Video)

Lecture featuring Justice Caroline Berger ('76) (Audio, BU Login required)
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February 25, 2008

Widener Law School National Conference on Crimtorts featuring:
Professor Kenneth Simons: Presenter, Introductory Panel, [See video #1]
Professor Keith Hylton: Presenter, Punitive Damages Panel (See video #3)

February 12, 2008

Interview with alumnus Judge Harry Elam (Class of 1951), the first black appointee to the Boston Municipal Court of Massachusetts. (Video: 6:23)

February 11, 2008

School of Law Lane-Reticker Speaker Series with Congressman Barney Frank (Video: 58:03)
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Lecture featuring Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) Chairman, House Financial Services Committee (Audio)

News Coverage:

• "What Caused the Subprime Crisis?" BU Today (Feature & Video)
• "Mass. congressman works to increase mortgage regulation," NECN.com (Feature & Video)

January 29, 2008

New Orleans Legal Assistance Training Session (Video)

December 6, 2007

Professor Cornelius Hurley interviewed by Boston's WBZ News Radio: More on This: “Reaction to President Bush's subprime mortgage plan” (Audio)

November 14, 2007

Professor Mark Pettit interviewed by National Public Radio's Morning Addition: "Singing Law Professor Rocks the Classroom" (Feature & Audio)

November 1, 2007

Annual Shapiro Lecture: “Inventing the Public Defender: A Lecture on the Life of Clara Foltz, Pioneer Woman Lawyer” featuring Barbara Babcock

Part I (Video: 30:49)

Part II (Video: 31:25)

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October 27, 2007

"New Media & the Marketplace of Ideas" Conference (Audio)
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October 11, 2007

The Role of the President in the Twenty-First Century (Video)
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September 18, 2007

A Conversation with Sumner Redstone (Video: 1:02:08)
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July 26, 2007

Dean Maureen O'Rourke interviewed on Boston's WBZ TV regarding alumni Victor Garo and Dan Rea's victory in record-setting civil suit (Video)
Read more about the case
WBZ.com

June 14, 2007

Never Quit - A Special Engagement with Victor J. Garo ('65) and Dan Rea ('74) (Video)

May 20, 2007

Commencement Address, Martha Coakley (’79), Massachusetts Attorney General (Video)

April 28, 2007

Professor Wendy Gordon, Panelist, "Copyright, Fair Use, and the Cultural Commons," MIT Communications Forum (Video: 1:26:55)

March 30, 2007

The Nuremberg Doctors' Trial- 60 Years Later (Video)
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March 27, 2007

"Anatomy of a Deal" Lecture featuring Michael Kendall ('93), Partner, Goodwin Procter (Audio, 47:28)
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March 8, 2007

Annual Shapiro Lecture: "Human Rights After the Fall of the Superpower" featuring Samantha Power, Pulitzer Prize Winner (Video)
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January 20, 2007

Lecture with Professor Fran Miller, "Save It for Later: Financial and Estate Planning for You and Your Heirs" (Video, 01:52.02)

November 17, 2006

Intellectual Property Conference: Software Patents in America (Video)
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October 24, 2006

Global Health Lecture by Dr. Sima Samar: "The Fragile Future of Afghanistan: Human Rights, Justice and Security" (Video)
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October 20, 2006

International Legal Career Discussion with Robert Grondine ('80) (Audio, 40:28)
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September 29, 2006

Extraordinary Powers in Ordinary Times: The Political, Ethical and Constitutional Issues Raised when the Law Responds to Emergencies (Video)
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September 28, 2006

Pro Bono Kick-Off, featuring Stephanie Ives ('03) and Victor Garo ('65) (Video)
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May 14, 2006

Commencement Address, David Gergen, Professor, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government (Video)

April 21 - 22, 2006

Conference: The Role of the Judge in the Twenty-First Century (Video)
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March 31, 2006

Conference: The Terri Schiavo Case: One Year Later (Video)
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March 30, 2006

Edward Lane-Reticker Speaker Series Lecture: "Protecting Investors Through Hedge Fund Advisor Registration: Long on Costs, Short on Returns"
Paul S. Atkins, Securities and Exchange Commissioner (Audio, 1:05:36)
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May 22, 2005

Commencement Address, Deval L. Patrick, Massachusetts Governor (Video)